Answer by silentcoder for What's a schrödinbug?
I have an example from my own history, this was some 25 years ago. I was a child doing rudimentary graphics programming in Turbo Pascal. TP had a library called BGI which included some functions that...
View ArticleAnswer by finnw for What's a schrödinbug?
I've seen a few Schödinbugs and always for the same reason:Company policy required that everyone was supposed to use a program.Nobody really used it (mostly because there was no training for it.)But...
View ArticleAnswer by Loren Pechtel for What's a schrödinbug?
I have never seen a true schrodinbug and I don't think they can exist--finding it won't break things.Rather, something changed that exposed a bug that's been lurking for ages. Whatever changed is still...
View ArticleAnswer by user4051 for What's a schrödinbug?
Here's a real Schrödinbug I saw in some system code. A root daemon needs to communicate with a kernel module. So the kernel code creates some file descriptors:int pipeFDs[1];then sets up communication...
View ArticleAnswer by Andrew for What's a schrödinbug?
A corollary to the Schrödinbug is the Heisenbug - which describes a bug that disappears (or occasionally appears) when attempting to investigate and/or fix it.Heisenbugs are mythical clever little...
View ArticleAnswer by JSBձոգչ for What's a schrödinbug?
A real-life example. I can't show code, but most people will relate to this.We have a big internal library of utility functions where I work. One day I'm looking for a function to do a particular...
View ArticleAnswer by configurator for What's a schrödinbug?
Because everyone mentions code that should never have worked, I'll give you an example I ran into, about 8 years ago on a dying VB3 project that was being converted to .net. Unfortunately the project...
View ArticleAnswer by Jon Hopkins for What's a schrödinbug?
In my experience the pattern is this:System works, often for yearsAn error is reportedThe developer investigates the error and finds a bit of code which seems to be completely flawed and declares that...
View ArticleAnswer by S.Lott for What's a schrödinbug?
This happens all the time when people use debuggers.The debugging environment is different from the actual -- no debugger -- production environment.Running with a debugger may mask things like stack...
View ArticleAnswer by StuperUser for What's a schrödinbug?
Don't know a real-world example, but to simplify it with an example situation:A bug isn't noticed for a time, because the application doesn't run the code under conditions that cause it to fail.Someone...
View ArticleWhat's a schrödinbug?
This wiki page tells :A schrödinbug is a bug that manifests only after someone reading source code or using the program in an unusual way notices that it never should have worked in the first place, at...
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